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• Loїs Williams obituary

  26-04-2024 20:04
  
  My mother, Loїs Williams, who has died aged 98, was a social work team leader, an actor, a founder member of the National Childbirth Trust, and a lifelong campaigner for human rights, justice, peace and equality.Her acting career began with the Entertainments National Service Association in 1945, followed by many repertory theatre tours and seasons at the Shakespeare Memorial theatre in Stratford alongside Paul Scofield and Joss Ackland. These provided rich material for her creative writin
  
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• Sunak under pressure to grant amnesty to unpaid carers fined for rule breaches

  26-04-2024 12:18
  
  Concern grows over legality of approach as figures show more than 150,000 carers facing huge penaltiesA hero – then sacked: the carer’s allowance whistleblowerMore than 150,000 unpaid carers are facing huge fines for minor rule breaches, figures show, as MPs, charities and campaigners demand an immediate amnesty.Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, joined calls to write off the vast debts incurred by tens of thousands of people who care for sick, disabled and elderly relatives after experts
  
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• UK policy denying visas to children of care workers faces legal challenge

  26-04-2024 07:00
  
  Exclusive: Action by organisation supporting migrants argues new rules are discriminatoryAn organisation that supports migrant workers has launched a legal challenge against the government’s new policy to bar care workers from bringing children and partners to the UK, warning that it is “tearing families apart”.According to Migrants at Work, care workers have to choose between family life with their children and partners or getting a job as a health or social carer in the UK &n
  
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